This is a very powerful essay, and by a direct descendant of Edmond Pettis. Her story adds to history rather than erasing it.
Help me understand how removing a monument adds to history. Her perspective surely does and it should be included when history is taught. But I am not understanding how making a confederate general a non entity adds to history.
Again, the monuments are lies ā symbols of racism, fear, and hate.
The monumentsā historical significance is that of relics of a hateful, brutal past ā their appropriate place is in museums and other private venues that display such manifestations of evil, not public lands.
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A widely circulated list of historical "facts" about slavery dwells on the participation of non-whites as owners and traders of slaves in America.
www.snopes.com
Snopes pretty much said it was all true lol haha
Some of it. That's why you can rely on Snopes. They tell the truth. Some of those "facts" are misleading by being taken out of context and some are not true. Just thought the poster would like to know what he's spreading around.ii
They were all true except they argued about how many slaves Ellison bought .. Ellison was a know breeder.. something many white slave owners were against .. take a hike loser
Nope. They most certainly were not. Do I have to cut and paste them for you?
Paste what? White slave breeders? Did I say they didnāt exist ?? What are you going to post? You canāt put words in my mouth you pos turd lol I said many white slave owners were against IT . YOU TURD LOL
The first legal slave owner in American history was a black tobacco farmer named Anthony Johnson.
Actually, the case involved an indentured servant named John Casor, who the court found Johnson had the rights to for Casorās life. It was not chattel slavery.
North Carolinaās largest slave holder in 1860 was a black plantation owner named William Ellison.
False.
William Ellison was a very wealthy black plantation owner and cotton gin manufacturer who lived in South Carolina (not North Carolina). According to the 1860
census (in which his surname was listed as āEllersonā), he owned 63 black slaves, making him the largest of the 171
black slaveholders in South Carolina, but
far from the largest overall slave holder in the state.
In 1830 there were 3,775 free black people who owned 12,740 black slaves.
True. But what Snopes doesnāt mention is that many (not all) of those free black people owned a husband or wife or child(ren). In some slave holding states, freed slaves had to leave the state. So therefore, after they were bought by family to protect them and so that they could live together as a family, they werenāt freed.
Many black slaves were allowed to hold jobs, own businesses, and own real estate.
Somewhat true. There were exceptions, but
generally speaking ā especially after 1750, by which time slave codes had been entered into the law books in most of the American colonies ā
black slaves were not legally permitted to own property or businesses.
Most slaves brought to America from Africa were purchased from black slave owners.
Sort of true.
to simply say that Europeans purchased people who had already been enslaved seriously distorts historical reality. While there had been a slave trade within Africa prior to the arrival of Europeans, the massive European demand for slaves and the introduction of firearms radically transformed west and central African society.
FACT CHECK: 9 'Facts' About Slavery They Don't Want You to Know